The Secret Service fired several shots outside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s home early Tuesday morning.
Carjackers were attempting to break into vehicles near Yellen’s mansion in Northwest Washington, DC when a uniformed Secret Service agent fired their weapon sometime shortly after 1 a.m.
The suspect fled in a car. It is unclear if they were injured during the incident, but so far it appears they have not been arrested.
Senior law enforcement officials are calling the incident an “officer-involved shooting,” according to multiple reports.
The Secret Service and the Treasury Department did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on the shooting.
Yellen is being protected by United States Secret Service (USSS) agents and law enforcement officials have confirmed that President Joe Biden’s cabinet member was not threatened during the incident.
The Treasury Secretary’s residence in DC has six bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms and is a massive 5,800-square-foot home in an upscale neighborhood in the northwest part of the nation’s capital.
Online estimates put the value of Yellen’s home at around $2.7 million and last sold in the fall of 2019 for $2,065,000.
Shots were fired early Tuesday morning by the U.S. Secret Service outside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s home in Washington, D.C.
Carjackings have spiraled out of control in Washington DC in recent years – something critics attribute to a loosening of criminal laws in the city.
In 2023, there were 958 carjackings in the county, compared to 484 in 2022. And so far this year, there have been 475.
Yellen is not the only politician dealing with the fallout from the uptick in carjackings.
Rep. Henry Cueller (D-Texas) was returning to his home in Southeast Washington, D.C., last October when three armed assailants took his car, a white Honda CHR with Texas license plates.
Cueller was not injured in the carjacking.
Additionally, just 13 months before the Yellen incident, officers opened fire after two teenagers tried to break into an unmarked USSS car outside Naomi Biden’s Georgetown home.
Robert Kemp, 19, and a 14-year-old were arrested earlier this year in connection with a burglary of a vehicle used by Secret Service agents guarding President Biden’s granddaughter.
According to the Secret Service’s recollection of the incident outside Yellen’s home Tuesday morning, an officer observed a “sedan with multiple occupants attempting to open car doors along the street.”
“As the sedan approached the officer, a confrontation occurred between the officer and the occupants of the car,” the Secret Service said. according to NBC News. “The officer fired his service weapon.”
“The suspects fled the scene in the sedan and a lookout was provided to local law enforcement,” the agency added.
Yellen’s mansion is located in an upscale neighborhood in northwest Washington, DC and is valued at $2.7 million. Carjackers attempted to break into vehicles outside the home, which is protected by the Secret Service